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Quoting: Comandante oardoWinE devs must take the development process more seriously, specially the paid ones like Codewavers.
We are finishing 2016 and 64bit support is not oficially implemented yet and there aren't any signs if it will be..
Add the fact that DX10 and DX11 are very far away from here...

Clean-room reverse-engineering a complex set of closed API's is no walk in the park. If it was, we'd have perfect, free Windows clones coming out of the woodwork.

Also, what keeps Codeweavers going is making boring old business software and things like that work on Linux and Mac. If 64bit and DX11 would significantly boost their income, I'm sure they'd be scrambling to get it done. And even if games were a priority, it's only recently that some Windows games have gone exclusively 64bit.

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WinE devs must take the development process more seriously, specially the paid ones like Codewavers.
We are finishing 2016 and 64bit support is not oficially implemented yet and there aren't any signs if it will be..
Add the fact that DX10 and DX11 are very far away from here...

The only games you can play on wine are older DX9 games...
Even older games like Bioshock 2 have problems; It crash if You play it with high resolution textures...I can tell you that this game consume a little bit more than 1GB of RAM and no more that 1GB of VRAM. I know very well that this problem is not present in Windows7 64 bit (because I have the OS and the game installed on another PC), so is a Wine problem.

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Quoting: emphyAs far as I am aware, interpreters like openRA, Scummvm, gemrb are always fully legal, independent of where individual users may have gotten the game content.

ScummVM demands you provide the game yourself (from GOG.com, CDs, etc.), but openRA downloads a mirrored copy of the games it supports directly from within the program.

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As far as I am aware, interpreters like openRA, Scummvm, gemrb are always fully legal, independent of where individual users may have gotten the game content.

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Could you ask them if we can install the Elite mod on linux also?

Elite Mod Project


The official file is an (.exe) installer but the only thing it does is extract files into the right places.
That said IDK which places are the right ones here.

Owww and there's a Zipped (.zip) with the same files also.



Peace!

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Quoting: KithopKind of related, they say DRM is a waste of time. If and when this Linux port materializes, I kind of want to throw money at them just because they're finally getting it. :P

That is because they are one the few DEVS who respect the users....
..That's why they have my respects and that's why I pre purchased the game on GOG! :)

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Quoting: TheReaperUKNot the only game to lose Linux support on release, i had "Syndrome" in my wish list for ages only to find on release (6th Oct 2016) that the Linux Icon/System Specs had been removed, No more Linux Support, Never got around to asking why as Linux support is being drop from games a lot of late.

The game was covered here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/new-trailer-for-first-person-horror-game-syndrome-looks-good-linux-supported.7916

And the steam page here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/409320/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_2

About that: http://steamcommunity.com/app/409320/discussions/0/343788552534254406/#c343788552537057639

QuoteIt will be available soon. We had to update the engine version because of some Linux specific issues, but while it fixed these issues, it also created some others. As soon as go through all of these, we'll launch it.

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For me Enslaved "port" does not work at all, however their previous game works like a charm. A Wine port for very old games is still better than nothing.

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I have high hopes for this game, perhaps too high. But the visuals, the ideas, the design all point to a clear vision of something extraordinary and delightful, and games that begin thus --- if they can find their way to completion --- rarely disappoint.

So, here's hoping.

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Quoting: nakoyuSo it is true that they are using DirectX? Then it should not come as a suprice that Mac and Linux would not be supported, *and that it will never be in the future either*.

They had a working demo for Linux and Mac which was released the same time as public demo for Windows. I suspect their plan originally was to develop both DirectX and OpenGL renderers, and in the long run couldn't keep the OpenGL one up to speed with the DirectX one. The usual problem with maintaining two code paths.

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Quoting: EhvisIt has an ancient lcd game!

Please don't say ancient. It makes me feel so old. :/

We must be from the same era! Just think of it being technologically ancient. :P

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The mechanical giant chicken in the end was great :D

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So how does steam version compares with ja2-stracciatella?

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Quoting: ungutknutHowever it's their business and I buy games for playing, not for charity.

And so do I. Entertainment is not charity. If we all bought games for Windows we would not have a lot of Linux games to play. When you buy something for a particular system you are actually sealing off a vote with money.
People are free to be careless about this fact, but then the same people should stop their silly blaming of Linux when their favorite game is only released for a four square system. It's actually their own fault.

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Quoting: KeyrockToo bad TopWare didn't publish the original Jagged Alliance 2. Still, this is cool. Keep 'em coming, Topware.

They did, in some countries. My physical Polish copy of JA2 still has Topware logo on it :)

But at the moment, several different entities own the rights to Jagged Alliance games.

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So it is true that they are using DirectX? Then it should not come as a suprice that Mac and Linux would not be supported, *and that it will never be in the future either*. That makes it sound that they never intended a Linux/Mac release ever, it sounds like a scam to get maximum publicity. Also, their excuse will have it so that Mac and Linux ain't viable gaming platforms ("Sadly, as time went on..."). Ehr, we have a portfolio of 2700+ diverse games to prove you wrong! Look into it and you'll find games that are a lot more graphics intensive and more beautiful than what you have to offer. The true issue here is YOU, get your tools right!

As I see it, if the game is suddenly not coming to Linux then my money is suddenly not coming to you either. I will support someone else instead and will recommend people to go buy something else. As simple as that.

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Wasn't it like that since last year, when GBX became the sole owner of franchise? Which is probably why World Tour got planned.

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Quoting: boltronicsOne thing has always bugged me though. I know C&C and RA were made available as freeware for a time, back around the time C&C: The First Decade was released. Then for a couple of years after that, the ISO images could still be found on http://ftp.ea.com/pub/ (which no longer seems to be around).

However, I very much doubt that the license permitted redistribution rights as part of the download. Hence, mirroring that content which is no longer available is likely in breach of the license.

The bigger problem I have is that I never got to play Dune 2000. I was a massive fan of Dune 2 back when it was released, but I was flat out with high school, assignments and part time work when 2000 came out, so I missed it. I've been keeping an eye out for it ever since, on Steam, GOG, Origin... I've never seen Dune 2000 made available for download, either for free or at cost. Sadly, I'm pretty sure that the OpenRA download is a case of copyright infringement too (and it's missing the soundtrack and other important game assets). EA doesn't seem to care (and some would call it abandonware), but it's still in breach of license AFAICT.

Nowadays, EA has their FTP content served from http://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/ but that doesn't have any ISO images that I can see. I might have to try to get Dune 2000 from Ebay.

All the free C&C downloads are served from https://cncnet.org/
If that is permitted or not is a whole different story. EA doesn't seem to care _for_now_.

The same is actually true for their game BattleForge, which became F2P at some point and was discontinued later on. There are now multiple projects (eg: http://bfreborn.com/ which will also be available for Linux as wine-port), that try to backwards-engineer the client and server-structure to revive the game again.
This is CLEARLY a license infringement, but EA doesn't do anything about it, yet.

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I guess it should play something like Alien: Isolation and/or SOMA? I'd prefer an adventure (with real puzzles and dialogue, not a walking simulator) in a similar style, but without the stress or survival. I'm still veeeery slowly working my way through A:I, and it's a great game, but I think I like my adventures better without the frustration. At least provide an easy difficulty level like most "real" action/FPS games do. I'm in it for the story and the puzzles, not the pants-soiling.

Quoting: EhvisIt has an ancient lcd game!

Please don't say ancient. It makes me feel so old. :/

We had the awesome original Mario Bros. with the "bros" working at a bottling plant (I thought they were plumbers?) and good old Donkey Kong Jr. when I was a kid. Sadly both long since broken and gone. All the remakes and digital versions just wouldn't feel the same.

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Despite the fact that steam hasn't launched the controllers in your locations, you can still buy through other retailers. I bought mine from Amazon without a problem as well.

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Those of you concerned about regional availability might be interested to know that the link in the first paragraph of the article appears to be the slides and text of the Steam Dev Day talk and includes:

QuoteSince their launch, Controller and Link sales have been limited to the US, EU and Canada. We’re now expanding that to Eastern Europe, SE Asia, Latin America and Oceania. The first of these new territories are already online, and the rest will be there over the next few months.

Being from New Zealand I'm a bit disappointed that the "Territory Expansion" slide doesn't have here coloured in, though I bought a Steam Controller from Amazon a few months back.

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Quoting: MGOidI don't think Firefox make it unpure, the theme and wallpaper are still untouched :-)

But, what choice did they have? Both Konqueror and Rekonq went MIA a long time ago, and there is no other QT browser well maintained and integrated with KDE, so the best is to stick with Firefox or Chromium.

The Gnome folks have Epiphany, but I wonder how many stick with it instead of Chrome or Firefox.

KaOS uses QupZilla. In fact, KaOS has its repositories set up to contain as few GTK applications as possible. If I wanted a pure KDE distro, that's where I'd go.
Not that there's anything wrong with Kubuntu per se (besides being based on Ubuntu, of course).

Quoting: EhvisIt's still better to have *a* golden standard than no at all. At least game devs have a fixed system to test against. Otherwise they may have been scared off by the excessive amount of choice.

Yeah but... Fedora. If you want any distro to be standard, go with Fedora, it's backed by a big player (Red Hat, the original big fish in Linux), often set the standards followed by other distros (Pulseaudio, SystemD, Wayland,...), and, most important of all, actually has up-to-date packages. Arch would also be neat, but it's not always super stable and it hasn't got a big player backing it.

Note: I don't run Fedora because I vastly prefer KDE over anything GTK based.

You can always use a Fedora spin, Fedora KDE

I use the Fedora MATE spin, as I am not at all fond of Gnome3/Unity

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Alright, so who wants to take bets on which will release first, Killing Floor 2 or Killing Room?

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It is supposed to disappoint only 2 people in the universe!

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Quoting: meggermanIs buying a CPU only a good idea given the APU 4 core will most likely be enough for gaming at QHD/4k with Vulkan ? I have been running an APU as a CPU + dedicated card but i wonder if with FOSS AMD drivers we will see interesting APU+Dedicated crossfire support giving much more performance than just CPU+GPU alone ?

Other than that, i can't wait for this. Either way my next Linux rig is AMD+AMD. Not AMD+Nvidia, nvidia just aren't going to be as competitive as AMD on Linux going forward ( can't believe it's possible to type that )

Just to clarify: Vulkan won't make the GPU component of an APU much better really. The graphics hardware itself will likely be a bottleneck, not the CPU side of things. My guess is that any integrated graphics solution in the short term will have trouble at 4k.

Actually the memory bandwidth will likely be the bottleneck as APUs may still only use dual-channel memory controllers.

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Quoting: EhvisObvious question, why this over Starbound?

Yeah, from what I've seen from the trailer, it doesn't seem to have many differences from Starbound.

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I was a massive fan of C&C back in the day, and have used OpenRA a number of times (although it's been a couple of years since I last ran it). We even had an after work LAN at the office with OpenRA at one point, which was a lot of fun.

One thing has always bugged me though. I know C&C and RA were made available as freeware for a time, back around the time C&C: The First Decade was released. Then for a couple of years after that, the ISO images could still be found on http://ftp.ea.com/pub/ (which no longer seems to be around).

However, I very much doubt that the license permitted redistribution rights as part of the download. Hence, mirroring that content which is no longer available is likely in breach of the license.

The bigger problem I have is that I never got to play Dune 2000. I was a massive fan of Dune 2 back when it was released, but I was flat out with high school, assignments and part time work when 2000 came out, so I missed it. I've been keeping an eye out for it ever since, on Steam, GOG, Origin... I've never seen Dune 2000 made available for download, either for free or at cost. Sadly, I'm pretty sure that the OpenRA download is a case of copyright infringement too (and it's missing the soundtrack and other important game assets). EA doesn't seem to care (and some would call it abandonware), but it's still in breach of license AFAICT.

Nowadays, EA has their FTP content served from http://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/ but that doesn't have any ISO images that I can see. I might have to try to get Dune 2000 from Ebay.

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Yeah at least they test the Linux version =)

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Too bad TopWare didn't publish the original Jagged Alliance 2. Still, this is cool. Keep 'em coming, Topware.

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Quoting: MGOidI don't think Firefox make it unpure, the theme and wallpaper are still untouched :-)

But, what choice did they have? Both Konqueror and Rekonq went MIA a long time ago, and there is no other QT browser well maintained and integrated with KDE, so the best is to stick with Firefox or Chromium.

The Gnome folks have Epiphany, but I wonder how many stick with it instead of Chrome or Firefox.

KaOS uses QupZilla. In fact, KaOS has its repositories set up to contain as few GTK applications as possible. If I wanted a pure KDE distro, that's where I'd go.
Not that there's anything wrong with Kubuntu per se (besides being based on Ubuntu, of course).

Quoting: EhvisIt's still better to have *a* golden standard than no at all. At least game devs have a fixed system to test against. Otherwise they may have been scared off by the excessive amount of choice.

Yeah but... Fedora. If you want any distro to be standard, go with Fedora, it's backed by a big player (Red Hat, the original big fish in Linux), often set the standards followed by other distros (Pulseaudio, SystemD, Wayland,...), and, most important of all, actually has up-to-date packages. Arch would also be neat, but it's not always super stable and it hasn't got a big player backing it.

Note: I don't run Fedora because I vastly prefer KDE over anything GTK based.

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